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Re: Marlon Brown

Good show for FirstDown Brown.
I would have preferred a few jumps to him being that he had 5-6 inches on his man.

For YAC, his vision looks better than his speed, and that's fine. We have Torrey for the flip (speed over vision). Need to watch the tape for his blocking and routes, but I hope he's feeling confident with his effort. Hell, he almost made a one-hander to boot.

Re: Marlon Brown

Originally Posted by GOTA

They won't try it because of money. Everyone on the week 1 roster has their salary for the season guaranteed. That means paying which ever old fart TE they cut to bring up Furst would be a lot of dead money. I like the idea but it's not going to happen.

They don't have to cut him there is plenty more deadweight on the team to cut; plus it's not like there's never been a situation where the team brought up a PS squad guy, even though every year players salaries are guaranteed past week 1.

Re: Marlon Brown

Originally Posted by BigPlayReceiver

Good show for FirstDown Brown.
I would have preferred a few jumps to him being that he had 5-6 inches on his man.

For YAC, his vision looks better than his speed, and that's fine. We have Torrey for the flip (speed over vision). Need to watch the tape for his blocking and routes, but I hope he's feeling confident with his effort. Hell, he almost made a one-hander to boot.

I thought the same but maybe Joe just doesn't trust him with the "Boldin throws" quite yet. That said, he threw a killer back shoulder ball to Brown. It was a tough catch, he kind of spun back and had it cradled in one arm before it squirted away. He starts reeling in those, Joe will treat him like Boldin II real fast. I think it'll happen as the season goes on, we may not have a choice but to start launching them up to him. With JJ12 out and nobody else having any hands on the team, until Deonte and/or JJ12 gets back our receiving depth is
1. Torrey,
2. Marlin and
3. Cringe.

Re: Marlon Brown

Originally Posted by NC Raven

I thought the same but maybe Joe just doesn't trust him with the "Boldin throws" quite yet. That said, he threw a killer back shoulder ball to Brown. It was a tough catch, he kind of spun back and had it cradled in one arm before it squirted away. He starts reeling in those, Joe will treat him like Boldin II real fast. I think it'll happen as the season goes on, we may not have a choice but to start launching them up to him. With JJ12 out and nobody else having any hands on the team, until Deonte and/or JJ12 gets back our receiving depth is
1. Torrey,
2. Marlin and
3. Cringe.

Man I didnt realize how dire the situation was until i heard the "nobody else having any hands" besides Deonte and JJ12. Both have below average hands and theyre the guys we need back because THEY can catch? ouch.

Re: Marlon Brown

Originally Posted by JAB1985

Man I didnt realize how dire the situation was until i heard the "nobody else having any hands" besides Deonte and JJ12. Both have below average hands and theyre the guys we need back because THEY can catch? ouch.

Yeah, I agree.... it's pretty grim. JJ12 looked like Cris Carter out there compared with Dickson and Clark.

With Deonte I'm taking the coaching staff's word for it based on camp reports. It'd be hard to have worse hands than what we saw last night.

Re: Marlon Brown

If Deonte can get back healthy quickly that will help out so much with WR rotation and overall catching ability. Stokely and the rest of the guys won't get so tired being out there on every play plus when you have Thompson, Smith, and Brown out there, they'll have similar team speed as they had when Jones was there.

Re: Marlon Brown

Originally Posted by s.r.genovese

They don't have to cut him there is plenty more deadweight on the team to cut; plus it's not like there's never been a situation where the team brought up a PS squad guy, even though every year players salaries are guaranteed past week 1.

You really see the Ravens going with 4 tight ends and Juice? If Furst comes up it means that either Clark or Bajema is off the team.